Where:Tunis,Tunisia,North Africa

What:The AMLF is the flagship programme of AMI, providing owners and operators an exciting opportunity to interact with peers, investors, policy makers, development partners and technology leaders.

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Where: Transcorp Hilton Hotel,Abuja,Nigeria,West Africa

When:October 19th-20th

Who:Executive,Entrepreneurs,Governors,Chairman,Industry Leaders

The speakers include Babatunde Raji Fashola , Executive Governor of Lagos State
Madhu Mantena, Bollywood Film Director
Guy Harington, Head of CEMEA, Public Sector Group, CitiGroup
Aliko Dangote, Executive Chairman and Founder, Dangote Group
Ali Faramawy, Vice President and President, Middle East and Africa, Microsoft International
Oscar Onyeama, Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Stock Exchange
Jubril Adewale Tinubu, Group Chief Executive, Oando Plc.

The Agenda

-The world in 2012
What trends, discoveries, issues and ideas will dominate global discussions over the year ahead? How will developments in business, finance, politics, science and technology change the lives of Nigeria’s citizens?

-The nation finances
Which factors will shape Nigeria’s growth over the next five years? Will the Government be able to put the nation’s finances in order? We discuss what lies in store for the economy, talking through GDP, inflation, currency rates, industrial output and consumer spending, and explaining how global trends will directly impact Nigeria’s performance

-Reforming Nigeri’s business landscape: Investors and Government in dialogue
The operating environment for business in Nigeria remains challenging, with wide disparities across states in terms of the ease of paying taxes, registering property, enforcing contracts, obtaining permits or setting up a business.

-Spotlight on Nigeria Film Industry
In just thirteen years, Nollywood has become the world’s third largest producer of feature films. Now worth US$ 250 million each year, Nigeria’s film industry is the brainchild of entrepreneurship and digital technology.

-Business in Lagos: How to improve the working environment in Nigeria’s biggest city
Join Babatunde Raji Fashola, Executive Governor of Lagos State for an exclusive interview on what steps he is taking to improve the infrastructure of Lagos. How will Lagos transform itself into a modern hub and what examples can the city give to Nigeria and to Africa?

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Africa encompasses more countries (53) than Asia and offers significant economic diversity. The nations of Africa currently are at a range of stages of development, political maturation, and urbanization. Unlike China and the Four Tigers, Africa is a mosaic of industries driven by vastly different dynamics.

The same trend that leads to market turmoil in one African nation, such as food price increases in Egypt,can be a growth catalyst in resource-rich countries such as South Africa and Nigeria.

Interesting facts:There are 52 African cities with more than 1 million people (in comparison,there are 52 in Europe and 48 in North America).
Africa’s labor force will grow from 500 million to 1.1 billion, at which point it will exceed China’s and India’s.

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Mobile Money Africa |July 14 2011|

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Mobile phone: An opportunity for low cost Banking in Africa.

Africa, home to over 800 million people is still grappling with significant unbanked populations even among the urban populations across cities, semi urban and rural communities.Regulators, innovators, technologist,financial services providers, international developmental organizations and governments are rallying around this significant dilemma of Banking the unbanked African.

New exciting technologies like the Mobile and cards are bridging the wide divide with innovative solutions like agency Banking, mobile financial services, community and micro finance Banking.

Solar Power Africa Summit |22nd August-25th August 2011|

Solar Power in Africa is in the forefront as a solution to dwindling coal based electricity supply.

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The total value of mobile money transfers in Africa will exceed US$200 billion in 2015.[ Source ]

Africa’s total stock market capitalization now exceeds $1 trillion [ Omegascorpi]

The Angolan Government will build from next October six multimedia libraries (computerized libraries and multimedia) in six provinces, in an initial investment estimated at USD 48 million. [ Source ]

A building materials and construction company, Kon-X Ltd., has introduced a new form of project finance to aid in reducing the high cost of building materials in Nigeria [ Source ]

The African Development Bank (ADB) has said it has received the Federal Capital Territory Administration’s request for a sum of $50 million to finance its proposed Bus Rapid Mass Transit (BRT). [ Source ]

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An important conference that took place durin g the year 2010 & went under the radar of many is The African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF)  the flagship programme of the African Media Initiative (AMI), a Pan-African Initiative to promote democratic governance, social development and economic growth by strengthening the continent’s media sector.

A key characteristic of media development in Africa has been the heavy concentration on journalism support at the expense of addressing the business aspects of media.

The theme of the 2010 AMLF was: “Funding African Media in an Age of Uncertain Business Models”.

Sessions on different subject matters related to the media industry included:

-Funding the African Media: Understanding the Financial Sector’s Approach to Funding Media; How to Bring Down the Barriers to Access to Capital and Promote Media as a Growth Sector.

-Gatekeeper versus Networker Journalism. What are the principles of journalism in the 21st century and who can claim to be a journalist today? What are the possible business models for those principles of journalism?

-African Media and the Development Challenge.

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“With free, quality media and freedom of expression under attack from just about every corner of African reality, it becomes more and more obvious that a concentrated, Africa-wide effort is needed to help the fight. Free African Media aims to be just that. The publication will function as a platform dedicated to freedom of expression throughout the continent, as well to helping improve the overall quality of reporting, analysis and opinion Africa-wide.”
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-A number of leading broadcasters and content suppliers involved in sub-Saharan Africa have come together to form Africa Media Rights Watch. [ Source ]

-The World Cup of filmmaking’the first Cinemasports international filmmaking competition to be held in Africa will take place on 18 September in Tshwane, South Africa. Harnessing a synergy between digital video, Internet, and mobile technology, Cinemasports is at the forefront of the changing media landscape. [Source ]

-IBM has announced the opening of a full subsidiary office in Accra, Ghana. The new office will enable IBM to deliver high-value solutions and services to meet the growing needs of clients in Ghana. [Source ]

-Nigeria mobile operator, Zain has introduced free SMS (Short Message Service), lowered tariff for calls made to numbers within (On-Net calls) and out of the networks (off-Net calls), and loads of other benefits designed to give its customers more value.[Source]

-Kenya prepares the way for a technology-based future. [Source ]

-Apple’s iPad could go on sale in SA within a matter of weeks [Source ]

-Global investors’ interest in acquiring vast swathes of land for commercial agriculture in Africa intensifies [Source]

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The Angel of Bakavu [Story]

China Eyes African agriculture [Story]

Africa’s biggest mobile operator, MTN, said on Thursday it has hired Indian firm IMImobile to manage the digital content for phones of its 103-million clients in 21 countries.[Story]

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The 22 Billion USD information technology market[Story]

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